Abstract:
On the basis of open access sources, the methodology of comparative analysis of the national scientific and educational systems was elaborated. It has been verified for example on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on open access data matrix (Nij) with a dimension (m×n) is constructed. In which Nij represents the number of objects (Universities, Research Centers, OA repositories, OA journals, Scopus journals) of ith country, belonging ith objects type, m is the number of countries, n is the number of objects type. With the aim of clustering Sub-Saharan African countriesin terms of the degree of the development of their scientific and educational potential based on the matrix (Nij), we introduced an integral indicator in form of a vector